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Gary B. Pruitt , 51, has been chief executive officer of McClatchy since May 1996 and president since May 1995. In May 2001, he was named McClatchy s chairman of the board of directors. He has been a director of McClatchy since July 1995. He served as chief operating officer of McClatchy from 1995 to 1996. From 1994 to 1995, he served as vice president, operations and technology of McClatchy. Prior to that time he was publisher of

Adam Weissman is a collective member of the Activism Center at Wetlands Preserve, a volunteer-run activist organization working to build alliances between movements for human, earth, and animal liberation, while actively campaigning in each of these areas. Current projects include Freegan.info, which works to expose waste, over-consumption, and destructive realities behind consumer goods; Greening the Comics Industry, an effort to shift the comic book industry to the use of recycled paper, Ducksave, a city-wide coalition of animal rights groups working to ban the cruel delicacy, foie gras; and the NYC Peoples Referendum on Free Trade, a diverse alliance of interest groups opposed to free trade agreements that jeopardize animal, labor, and environmental protections.Previously, Adam founded four campus animal and environmental advocacy organizations; launched a regional network of student animal advocacy groups; served on the National Council of the War Resisters League; founded and served as president of the League of Humane Voters of New York City; worked as a paid organizer for environmental groups Rainforest Action Network, ForestEthics, and the Wetlands Environmental and Social Justice Activism Center; and served on the steering committee of the Global Sweatshop Coalition, a city-wide alliance of labor solidarity organizations. His writings have been published in journals including Satya, Earth First! Journal, No Compromise, How On Earth! , Freedom Voice , and Animals Voice. He is frequently interviewed by local, national, and international media outlets, including Fox News Channel, Inside Edition, Fox News Radio, The New York Times, Associated Press TV, Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio, and ABC World News Now.

Kathleen Carroll is executive editor and senior vice president of The Associated Press, responsible for content in all formats from the journalists based in AP's 243 bureaus and 97 countries around the world. At the AP, Carroll has helped transition its news into multimedia formats and dealt with security issues for journalists covering stories in war zones and other hostile environments. Carroll first joined the AP's Dallas bureau in 1978, after her job as a reporter at The Dallas Morning News. During her career at the AP, she has been a writer and editor at AP's bureaus in Dallas, Washington, New Jersey, and California. Carroll has also worked for Knight Ridder, where she directed Washington and international coverage for newspapers and multimedia. She was a business editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris until returning to the United States as an editor at the San Jose Mercury News. She has served on the Pulitzer Prize Board since 2003.

Jay Tuten was named Hosted Product Manager in June 2006. He was previously interactive content director for the LA News Group (LANG), of Media News Group Interactive. In that role, he oversaw the strategy and operations for the web sites of the LA Daily News, seven other southern California newspapers, plus a regional site, LA.com.

George Wilson is chairman of the board of Newspapers of New England, Inc., a publisher of family-owned newspapers in New Hampshire, The Concord Monitor, The Valley News and The Monadnock Ledger, and, in Massachusetts, The Greenfield Recorder. He has resided in Concord, New Hampshire, with his wife, Marily, and been associated with the Concord Monitor, since 1962.